Yes, this is an innovation.

Is this circumstance a innovation: gathering around your relatives and having a hafiz recites some suras , sending praises to the prophet sws and making dua for the dead all together when visiting the dead persons home

Innovations | February 27, 2014 10:35 pm
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Some people that are insisting on saying every Friday Jum’uah Mubaraka , with such regularity that is seams now like one on the jum’uma etiquette..and everybody is answering back with the same. It is just so obvious they are doing an innovation in ibadah
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